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The week: Bulgarian politics in meltdown, corruption scandals revived and budget troubles
The unenviable task of trying to explain all this

Bulgarian economy: the start of a slowdown
The main growth drivers reached an inflection point in Q1 2023

Laundering Borissov, purging the secret services, coordinating with embassies: What froze cabinet talks?
A leaked discussion of WCC’s National Council has jeopardized government negotiations with GERB

The week: A coalition is (still) born, a mobster is killed, and a Booker is won
K Insights newsletter 26/05

Bulgarian energy plants suffer from lower electricity prices but still report profits in 2023
Nuclear and coal plants report very different financial results compared to 2022

The week: The captured state unravels, Mariya Gabriel gets a bad deal, while arms producers had a very good year
The country didn’t break. It was already broken

Need a windfall tax? Look at the Bulgarian nuclear money-making machine
Kozloduy NPP is one of the most profitable companies in South-East Europe

Doing business in Romania: examples of successful Bulgarian companies
Which are the Bulgarian companies that reap the benefits of the closeness to one of the fastest growing European markets

How Romania overtook Bulgaria
The biggest difference between the two countries is the degree of success in their fight against corruption

The board is set, the pieces are moving: will there be a cabinet?
Borissov seems to be dictating the pace of the negotiations, WCC is trying to outmaneuver him, but might end up playing into his hands

Rollplast completes 110 million levs window plant
The company invested 30 million levs in the last stage of the project in Kostinbrod

The week: Are parties going to agree on anything, the Azeri gas gambit and BNB cools down crediting
Coalition with GERB? Don’t look at what he says, look at what they do

"Unconventional proposal." Are GERB and WCC-DB working towards a gov’t?
In a sign of goodwill, the leaders of the two factions met for the first time on Tuesday, but a breakthrough remains far off

The week: Some lessons from Romania, handshakes in Parliament, and a call to people who love cities
K Insights newsletter: 21/04

Aurubis Bulgaria investing 120 million euro to boost copper cathode production
The company will process all its anodes locally after commissioning its refinery’s expansion in the second half of 2026